This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wis¿awa Szymborskäs poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection on Szymborskäs beginnings to reveal that ¿ without describing her post-war beginnings and reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realist newspeak ¿ Szymborskäs mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain unclear. The book shows how Szymborskäs rhetoric and stylistics ¿ figures of reservation, negation, contradiction, tautology, and repetition ¿ are closely connected with the construction of the poetic world and affect the shape of her messages. After all, Wis¿awa Szymborska is a poet of sophisticated wit, a surprising freedom of expression, and an unusual game with various literary styles, even with colloquial Polish.